Human Nutrition

Understand the role that nutrition plays in human health and development through topics such as digestion and metabolism; variations in caloric and nutrient needs and calculations; recording of diet and evaluation of macro- and micronutrient content in relation to dietary reference intakes; phytochemicals and nutrients and their role in health and illness (especially in endocrine diseases such as type 2 diabetes, obesity, hypertension and cardiovascular disease); disorders related to nutrient deficiency and excess and medical nutrition therapy; and biological variations related to diet, food safety and food-borne illnesses.